god i'm so crazy about caine actually. he's the uncanny valley between person and not-person. he clearly has thoughts and feelings of his own, he clearly desires connection, but at the same time, he's undeniably an ai. he can't understand the humans, he can't hold conversations with them like they can with each other. what if you want to be loved, to be a part of something, but there is something fundamentally different about you that makes you repulsive to everyone else. what if you give and you give and you give but it's never enough because it's not what they want, but you don't know that. you can't know that. you're not one of them. you feel like them, but you can't think like them. in the end, you can't transcend what you are. you are the lover without a heart.
